Program Manager, Strategic Youth Engagement and Communications.

DUTIES

• Cross-Programmatic Integration: Serve as the primary liaison between the Youth Leadership team and the Marketing team to ensure that peer-led insights and community trends inform all digital and local marketing strategies.
• Youth-Led Content Strategy: Lead the development of social media and marketing campaigns that authentically amplify youth voices from the After-School Peer Leadership and Summer Enrichment programs.
• Media Production Management: Oversee the production and strategic promotion of the Real Love Real Talk podcast, ensuring content is co-created with youth and reaches target demographics across Boston.
• Community Insight Loop: Design and implement "feedback-to-impact" systems, using data from community engagement projects and workshops to refine Start Strong’s digital footprint and messaging.
• Programmatic Brand Advocacy: Build and maintain partnerships with local schools and community organizations, focusing on how these collaborations can increase the visibility and measurable impact of the Start Strong Initiative.
• Framework Integration: Ensure all marketing materials and community outreach efforts strictly adhere to a Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach and a trauma-informed framework.
• Supervision: Provide direct supervision to coordinators, interns, and peer leaders specifically assigned to creative, media literacy, and digital outreach projects.
• Reporting & Analytics: Prepare high-level briefing materials for the Director that correlate youth participation rates with marketing engagement efficacy and campaign reach.
• Media Literacy Leadership: Design innovative media literacy resources for providers and youth, specifically focusing on how digital landscapes impact healthy relationships and teen dating violence prevention.
• Administrative Oversight: Support data collection for program grants to ensure compliance with BPHC standards and participate in Senior Leadership Team meetings as required.